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Bright Sky pricing and alternatives: weather forecast API

Bright Sky's sitellms.txtBest weather forecast API in 2026: pricing compared

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100% complete: all 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 placesHalf of the 165 plans we rank by price cost $0.072 per 1,000 places or less. This plan and 8 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 places of the 165 plans.Weatherbit, WeatherAPI.com and MET Norway are the best weather forecast API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free Bright Sky's only plan
Call: GET /weather Bright Sky's only call for this API
API: Weather forecast API one of Bright Sky's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • All 6 key fields we check. Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Conditions, Humidity, Sun.
  • Nothing to pay. Bright Sky limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
  • One call. You call GET /weather. You send lat, lon and date. You can also send last_date, max_dist (default 50000 m, at most 500000 m), tz and units. The call returns the forecast for the place.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Bright Sky: weather forecast API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 places.

This planBright Sky, freeWeatherbit, free, GET /v2.0/forecast/dailyWeatherAPI.com, freeMET Norway, free, GET /weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/compactVisual Crossing, free
$ per 1,000 places$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness100%100%100%83%100%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published50 calls a day100,000 calls a month51,840,000 calls a month30,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownliveunknown6 hoursunknown
Who can get itanyoneanyone, for non-commercial use aloneanyoneanyoneanyone

Every weather forecast API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-30.

  1. api.brightsky.dev/openapi.json
  2. brightsky.dev/
  3. brightsky.dev/docs/
  4. dwd.de/EN/service/legal_notice/legal_notice.html

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Temperature
  • Precipitation
  • Wind
  • Conditions
  • Humidity
  • Sun
Score
Overall score51.4
Price score100
Data score9
Cost to get started score100
Bundle score0
Performance score28
Price
$ per 1,000 places$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchCheck out /weather for hourly weather observations and forecasts.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataFree for any purpose: "Bright Sky is free-to-use for all purposes. As it solely provides an additional method to access the DWD's meteorological data, the DWD's Terms of Use apply to all data you retrieve through the API." (brightsky.dev). The DWD's Terms of Use: "All open spatial data and spatial data services of the DWD [...] may be re-used under the Creative Commons licence conditions CC BY 4.0 providing the source is acknowledged." (dwd.de legal notice).
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Median0.35 s
The call
You sendlat, lon, date. Optional: last_date, max_dist (default 50000 m, at most 500000 m), tz, units
MethodGET
Path/weather
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 30 fields the plan's answer can hold

forecast time, source ID, cloud cover, conditions, dew point, icon, sea-level pressure, humidity, temperature, visibility, fallback source IDs, precipitation, solar irradiation, sunshine duration, wind direction, wind speed, wind gust direction, wind gusts, precipitation chance, precipitation chance over 6 hours, station name, DWD station ID, WMO station ID, observation type, first record, last record, station latitude, station longitude, station height, distance from the location

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